Reuters World News Highlights at 0600 GMT, May 6

May 06, 2013|Reuters

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KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak couldstep down by the end of the year, ruling party sources said onMonday, after his coalition extended its 56-year rule buthaemorrhaged Chinese and Malay voters in its worst-ever generalelection performance.

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BEIRUT - Israeli jets devastated Syrian targets nearDamascus on Sunday in a heavy overnight air raid that Westernand Israeli officials called a new strike on Iranian missilesbound for Lebanon's Hezbollah.

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CARACAS - Venezuela brushed off criticism from U.S.President Barack Obama on Sunday and maintained its accusationthat an American detainee in Caracas is a spy pretending to be afilmmaker.

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SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI, India - India and China simultaneouslywithdrew troops from camps a few meters apart in a Himalayandesert on Sunday, apparently ending a three-week standoff on afreezing plateau where the border is disputed and the Asiangiants fought a war 50 years ago.

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GREATER NOIDA, India - Emerging Asian neighbours are bracingfor a surge in capital flows after Japan's unprecedented bid topump up its long-moribund economy but most believe the upside ofcheap cash and a stronger Japanese economy outweighs the risks.

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LAHORE, Pakistan - Nawaz Sharif, seen as the front-runner inPakistan's election race, said the country should reconsider itssupport for the U.S. war on Islamist militancy and suggestedthat he was in favour of negotiations with the Taliban.

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KABUL - Seven U.S. soldiers were killed in two separateattacks in Afghanistan on Saturday, NATO and Western officialsin Kabul said, capping off one of the bloodiest weeks forinternational forces this year.

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DHAKA - The wife of a Bangladeshi garment worker who waskilled when a building collapsed filed a murder complaintagainst the building's owner on Sunday as the death toll fromthe country's worst industrial disaster climbed to 622.

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HOUSTON - It is time to stop demonizing all law-abiding gunowners because of violent acts committed by a few criminals,National Rifle Association leaders and political allies said onFriday at its first convention since the Connecticut schoolmassacre.

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CAMARILLO, Calif. - A fierce, wind-driven wildfire spread onFriday along the California coast northwest of Los Angeles,threatening 4,000 homes and a military base as residents wereevacuated ahead of the flames and a university campus wasclosed.

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BOSTON/WASHINGTON - Investigators believe Tamerlan Tsarnaevand his younger brother, Dzhokhar, likely made the bombs theyare suspected of setting off at last month's Boston Marathon inTamerlan's home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, law enforcementofficials said on Friday.